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Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet and Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the V…
Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)
Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry often drew on…
Anne Sexton, American poet and author (born 1928)
Helmut Koinigg was an Austrian racing driver who died in a crash in the 1974 United States Grand Prix, in his second Grand Prix start.
Helmut Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (born 1948)
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunit…
Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (born 1908)
Joseph Wulf was a German-Polish Jewish historian. A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, he was the author of several books about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including…
Joseph Wulf, German-Polish historian (born 1912)
Otto Oscar Binder was an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books and stories, and comic books. He is best known as the co-creator of Supergirl and for his many scr…
Otto Binder, American author (born 1911)
Anatoli Yevgenyevich Kozhemyakin was a Soviet football player. He died in a freak accident: he was stuck in an elevator, but was able to open the elevator doors; as he tried to cli…
Anatoli Kozhemyakin, Soviet footballer (born 1953)
Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune…
Ed Sullivan, American journalist and talk show host (born 1901)
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureat…
David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (born 1908)
Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron, religious name Chitta-Vajra, was a Soviet Buryat Buddhist lama, Tibetologist, Buddhologist and translator, known for being the successor of the Balagat …
Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (born 1914)
Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam was an Indian mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry. He was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sci…
C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (born 1938)
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 to 1…
Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing th
Manaslu is the eighth-highest mountain in the world at 8,163 metres (26,781 ft) above sea level. It is in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in west-central Nepal. …
An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas, becoming the first women to climb a peak hig
The Airbus A300 is Airbus' first production aircraft and the world's first twin-engine, wide-body airliner. It was developed by Airbus Industrie GIE, now merged into Airbus, and ma…
The Airbus A300, the first twin-engined wide-body airliner, went into service with Air France
The Metapolitefsi was a period in modern Greek history from the fall of the Ioannides military junta of 1973–74 to the transition period shortly after the 1974 legislative election…
The Metapolitefsi period began with Konstantinos Karamanlis taking office as Prime Minister of Greece after the…
In German-speaking countries, the term Gastarbeiter refers to foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as pa…
An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 peo
Smiling Buddha was the code name of India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974. The nuclear fission bomb was detonated in the Pokhran Test Range of the Indian Army…
India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the fi
Henry Judah Heimlich was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited for the discovery of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for…
In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), …
Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians hosted Ten Cent Beer Night, but had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers d
Baltimore, Maryland, also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S. city with a population of 585,708 at t…
Municipal workers in Baltimore, Maryland, went on strike seeking higher wages and better conditions
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 2,080,000. …
After centuries of Portuguese rule, the country of Guinea-Bissau was formally recognized as independent.
The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, f…
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against the Netherlands at the Munich Olympiastadion.
The impeachment process against President Richard Nixon was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on October 30, 1973, during the course of the Watergate scandal,…
On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first…